This is the news: The Times of India reports an incident in the Indian city of Bhaglabur, a city of about 410,000 people.

The parents of 17-year-old Roshan Kumar were worried about their son because he did not come out of his room on Friday when called for dinner. When the boy still had not left his room on Saturday, they broke open the door and found the young man hanging in his room.

The Times of India reports from the family: there they believe their son killed himself because he lost a match in PUBG Mobile. He always got very angry about that, they say. The family suspects that such a defeat could also have happened to the boy on Friday night. According to other sources cited by the site, the boy was “addicted to PUBG”.

However, as reported by other sources of the page, the boy is said to have been unhappily in love with a young woman who rejected him. This rejection made him so sad. The boy’s father said: himself and his elder son had been busy delivering newspapers since early morning. He could say nothing about the death of his son.

Since 2019, horror messages about PUBG come from India

What is it with PUBG and India?

The game “PUBG Mobile” takes a special role in the Indian media. Actually, India is not a computer market, hardly anyone owns a PC or consoles there, but people have smartphones. PUBG was mainly a PC hit here in the West until it was replaced by Fortnite in 2018, but in India the mobile variant has become extremely popular. At the beginning of the PUBG hype in India, there was still quite bizarre news: In May 2019, it was said from India that a groom was so fascinated by PUBG that he even preferred to play PUBG at his own wedding and ignored his bride.

A bit later, in the summer of 2019, however, PUBG seemed to become a thorn in the side of authorities and media in India: Reports kept surfacing which suggested that young people were getting so addicted to PUBG Mobile that they were getting killed: All of this is seen in the Indian media as evidence that PUBG is addictive and violent, with US media casting doubt on the thrust of the reporting. For instance, it is known that deaths from trains are common in India. In 2012 alone, 15,000 people died crossing train tracks, he said.

PUBG Mobile has already been banned 2 times in India

How does the government deal with PUBG Mobile?

The game was banned in India in September 2020 because it was suspected that it could send strategically important data to China. It was said that the game endangered national security.